Andrea Rosen Gallery was inaugurated in January, 1990 with a seminal exhibition of work by Felix Gonzalez-Torres. This exhibition would set the pace and agenda for the entire program of the gallery; conceptually rigorous, fully aware of the responsibility of putting ones subjectivity in the public realm and unafraid of actually being beautiful.

It has always been the goal of the gallery to retain a specific territory for each artist that they represent. What defines the artists as a group is that each, independently, is fully responsible to the medium of their choice and is fully questioning of the role that art plays in the contemporary social-political, and/or cultural arena.